Modeling intercellular communication in tissues using spatial graphs of cells

DS Fischer, AC Schaar, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Models of intercellular communication in tissues are based on molecular profiles of
dissociated cells, are limited to receptor–ligand signaling and ignore spatial proximity in situ …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised and supervised discovery of tissue cellular neighborhoods from cell phenotypes

Y Hu, J Rong, Y Xu, R Xie, J Peng, L Gao, K Tan - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
It is poorly understood how different cells in a tissue organize themselves to support tissue
functions. We describe the CytoCommunity algorithm for the identification of tissue cellular …

Comparative analysis of cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution

AJ Wilk, AK Shalek, S Holmes, CA Blish - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Inference of cell–cell communication from single-cell RNA sequencing data is a powerful
technique to uncover intercellular communication pathways, yet existing methods perform …

Screening cell–cell communication in spatial transcriptomics via collective optimal transport

Z Cang, Y Zhao, AA Almet, A Stabell, R Ramos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic technologies and spatially annotated single-cell RNA sequencing
datasets provide unprecedented opportunities to dissect cell–cell communication (CCC) …

Integrating spatial and single-cell transcriptomics data using deep generative models with SpatialScope

X Wan, J Xiao, SST Tam, M Cai, R Sugimura… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The rapid emergence of spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies is revolutionizing our
understanding of tissue spatial architecture and biology. Although current ST methods …

Comprehensive visualization of cell–cell interactions in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics with NICHES

MSB Raredon, J Yang, N Kothapalli, W Lewis… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Recent years have seen the release of several toolsets that reveal cell–cell
interactions from single-cell data. However, all existing approaches leverage mean celltype …

Principles and strategies for developing network models in cancer

D Pe'er, N Hacohen - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The flood of genome-wide data generated by high-throughput technologies currently
provides biologists with an unprecedented opportunity: to manipulate, query, and …

The diversification of methods for studying cell–cell interactions and communication

E Armingol, HM Baghdassarian, NE Lewis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
No cell lives in a vacuum, and the molecular interactions between cells define most
phenotypes. Transcriptomics provides rich information to infer cell–cell interactions and …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

Computation and visualization of cell–cell signaling topologies in single-cell systems data using Connectome

MSB Raredon, J Yang, J Garritano, M Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing data has revolutionized our ability to understand of the patterns
of cell–cell and ligand–receptor connectivity that influence the function of tissues and …